US Patent Issued to Resonac on March 11 for "Magnetic sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,037, issued on March 11, was assigned to Resonac Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic sensor" was invented by Daizo Endo (Ichihara, Japan), Tatsunori Shino (Ichihara, Japan), Akira Sakawaki (Ichihara, Japan), Sho Tonegawa (Ichihara, Japan) and Yasumasa Watanabe (Ichihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic sensor includes: a non-magnetic substrate; and a sensitive element 31 having a longitudinal direction and a short direction, provided with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction, and sensing a magnetic field by a magnetic impedance effect, wherein the sensitive element 31 includes plural s...